GoDaddy

GoDaddy is a comprehensive domain registrar and web hosting platform that provides domain registration, website hosting, email services, and online marketing tools, enabling businesses and individuals to establish and grow their online presence with integrated solutions for digital success.

Power end-to-end data operations for your GoDaddy API with Nexla. Our bi-directional GoDaddy connector is purpose-built for GoDaddy, making it simple to ingest data, sync it across systems, and deliver it anywhere — all with no coding required. Nexla turns API-sourced data into ready-to-use, reusable data products and makes it easy to send data to GoDaddy or any other destination. With comprehensive monitoring, lineage tracking, and access controls, Nexla keeps your GoDaddy workflows fast, secure, and fully governed.

Features

Type: API

SourceDestination

• Seamless API Integration: Connect to any endpoint as source or destination without coding, with automatic data product creation
• Visual Composition & Chaining: Build complex integrations using visual templates, chain API calls, and compose workflows with data validation and filtering
• API Proxy: Expose curated slices of your data securely with a secure and customizable API proxy that validates and transforms data on the fly
• Request optimization with intelligent batching, retry, and caching to minimize API calls and costs

Prerequisites

Before creating a GoDaddy credential, you need to obtain an API Key and API Secret from your GoDaddy developer account. The API Key and API Secret are required to authenticate with the GoDaddy API.

To obtain your API Key and API Secret, follow these steps:

1. Sign in to your GoDaddy account and navigate to the GoDaddy Developer Portal.

2. If you don't have a developer account, you may need to create one or link your existing GoDaddy account to the developer portal.

3. Navigate to the API Keys or Credentials section in the developer portal dashboard.

4. Click Create API Key or Generate New Key to create a new API key pair. You may be asked to provide a name or description for the key to help identify it later.

5. After generating the API key, you will receive:

   • API Key: A unique identifier for your application
   • API Secret: A secret key that must be kept confidential

6. Copy both the API Key and API Secret immediately after generation, as the API Secret may not be displayed again for security reasons. Store these credentials securely.

The API Key and API Secret are sent in the Authorization header in the format sso-key: {api_key}:{api_secret} for all API requests to the GoDaddy API. This special authentication format is specific to GoDaddy's API and combines both credentials into a single header value. The GoDaddy API provides access to domain management, DNS configuration, and other domain-related operations. For detailed information about API key setup, authentication, and available API endpoints, refer to the GoDaddy API documentation and GoDaddy API reference.

Authenticate

Credentials required

Field	Required	Secret	Description
API Key	Yes	Yes
API Secret	Yes	Yes

Create a credential in Nexla

1. After selecting the data source/destination type, click the Add Credential tile to open the Add New Credential overlay.

New Credential Overlay – GoDaddy

2. Enter a name for the credential in the Credential Name field and a short, meaningful description in the Credential Description field.

3. GoDaddy uses API Key authentication with a special format that includes both an API Key and API Secret. The credentials are sent in the Authorization header in the format sso-key: {api_key}:{api_secret}. Enter your GoDaddy API Key in the API Key field. This is the API Key you obtained from your GoDaddy developer account settings in Prerequisites. The API Key is a unique identifier for your application and is used along with the API Secret to authenticate API requests.

4. Enter your GoDaddy API Secret in the API Secret field. This is the API Secret you obtained from your GoDaddy developer account settings. The API Secret is used along with the API Key to authenticate API requests and must be kept confidential.

   Keep your API Secret secure and do not share it publicly. The API Secret provides access to your GoDaddy account data and should be treated as sensitive information. If your API Secret is compromised, you should immediately regenerate it in your GoDaddy developer account settings. The API Key and API Secret are sent in the Authorization header in the format sso-key: {api_key}:{api_secret} for all API requests to the GoDaddy API. This special authentication format is required by GoDaddy's API and must be used exactly as specified. For detailed information about finding your API credentials, setting up authentication, and available API endpoints, see the GoDaddy API documentation and GoDaddy API reference.

5. Click the Save button at the bottom of the overlay. The newly added credential will now appear in a tile on the Authenticate screen during data source/destination creation and can be selected for use with a new data source or destination.

Use as a data source

To create a new data flow, navigate to the Integrate section, and click the New Data Flow button. Select the GoDaddy connector tile from the list of available connectors, then select the credential that will be used to connect to the GoDaddy account, and click Next; or, create a new GoDaddy credential for use in this flow.

Endpoint templates

Nexla provides pre-built templates that can be used to rapidly configure data sources to ingest data from common GoDaddy endpoints. Select the endpoint from which this source will fetch data from the Endpoint pulldown menu. Available endpoint templates are listed in the expandable boxes below. Click on an endpoint to see more information about it and how to configure your data source for this endpoint.

Get Domains

Retrieve the list of Domains for the specified shoppers

• This endpoint automatically retrieves all domains for the specified shoppers from your GoDaddy account. No additional configuration is required beyond selecting this endpoint template.
• The endpoint uses GET requests to https://api.godaddy.com/v1/domains. The endpoint URL is automatically constructed based on the GoDaddy API base URL.
• The endpoint does not use pagination (iteration.type: static.url) and returns a single response. The response data path is $[*], which extracts all items from the root-level array in the API response.

This endpoint retrieves the list of domains for the specified shoppers from your GoDaddy account. The endpoint returns domain information including domain names, registration dates, expiration dates, and other domain details. The endpoint does not use pagination and returns a single response with all domains. For detailed information about the API response format and available fields, see the GoDaddy Domains API documentation.

Domains Available

Determine whether or not the specified domains is available for purchase

• Enter the domain name whose availability you want to check in the Domain field. This should be the complete domain name (e.g., example.com). The domain name is used to check availability for purchase.
• The endpoint uses GET requests to https://api.godaddy.com/v1/domains/available?domain={domain} where {domain} is the Domain you provide. The endpoint URL is automatically constructed based on the GoDaddy API base URL and the domain parameter.
• The endpoint does not use pagination (iteration.type: static.url) and returns a single response. The response data path is $, which extracts the entire response object.

This endpoint checks whether a specified domain is available for purchase. The endpoint returns availability information including whether the domain is available, pricing information if available, and other relevant details. The endpoint does not use pagination and returns a single response with the availability information. For detailed information about the API response format and available fields, see the GoDaddy Domains API documentation.

Once the selected endpoint template has been configured, click the Test button to the right of the endpoint selection menu to retrieve a sample of the data that will be fetched. Sample data will be displayed in the Endpoint Test Result panel on the right, allowing you to verify that the source is configured correctly before saving.

Manual configuration

GoDaddy data sources can also be manually configured to ingest data from any valid GoDaddy API endpoint. Select the Advanced tab at the top of the configuration screen, and follow the instructions in Connect to Any API to configure the API method, endpoint URL, date/time and lookup macros, path to data, metadata, and request headers.

GoDaddy API endpoints typically return data in JSON format and follow the pattern https://api.godaddy.com/v1/{endpoint_path}. Authentication is handled automatically via the Authorization: sso-key {api_key}:{api_secret} header based on your credential configuration. For detailed information about available GoDaddy API endpoints, see the GoDaddy API documentation.

Once all of the relevant settings have been configured, click the Create button in the upper right corner of the screen to save and create the new GoDaddy data source. Nexla will now begin ingesting data from the configured endpoint and will organize any data that it finds into one or more Nexsets.